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NEWNAN, FRIDAY, JAN. 14.
ULAOKST OITAIIANTRED COUNTRY CIRCULATION
IN FOURTH COMORUSH I ON AL DMTttlCT.
Official Organ of Coweta County.
Iab. E. Bhown, Thob. 8. l’ARRorr,
BROWN & PARROTT,
EDITORS AND PUBI.IHHEIia.
NEW PRIMARY LA W IN EFFECT.
During the present year the new pri
mary law of the State will be given its
first trial in theholdingof the State and
county primaries next summer. The
last State Democratic Convention de
clared in favor of the holding of pri
maries not later than the adjournment
of the Legislature, which is approxi
mately the middle of August. The new
primary law provides for the fixing of
the general State primary not earlier
than sixty days before the date of the
general State election, which is Wed
nesday after the first Tuesday in Oc-
tober.
At the general State primary will be
chosen the Governor, State House offi
cers, members of Congress, United
States Senators, Judges of the Superior
Court, Justices of the Supreme Court
und Court of Appeals, Solicitors-Gener-
al and members of the General Assem
bly.
Tho new primary law makes provis
ion as to how and when tho primaries
are to bo held, where the electors shall
vote, tho qualifications of managers,
clerks and election assistants and re
quisites aB regards registration, the vot
ers’ lists and returns, and the official
ballot.
The law was passed during the ses
sion of the Legislature in tho summer
of 1908, and was immediately approved
by Gov. Smith. As no general primary
has beon held since that time, this
year’s primary will afford the first op
portunity to observe tho workings of
the now law.
CONGRESSMAN GRIGGS.
The death of Hon. James. M. Griggs,
Congressman from tho Second district,
which occurred suddenly last week at
his home in Dawson, has deprived Geor
gia of one of her ablest Representatives
in Congress, and caused general sorrow
throughout tho State. Ho began his
public -career as Solicitor-General of
tho Pntaula circuit, was afterwards
elevated to tho Judgeship of the same
circuit, and in 189G was olected to Con-
gross, serving continuously in this posi
tion until his death. Ho stood high in
the councils of his party, as was evi
denced by tho action of his colleagues
four years ago in selecting him for the
-chairmanship of the Democratic Con
gressional Campaign Committee. At
the organization of tho present Con-
grqss he was appointed a member of
'the Ways and Moans Committee, the
most important of all House committees.
Congressman Griggs was born in
'Troup county in 1861, where his boy
hood was spent. In his early manhood
'ho resided in Coweta county for a year
*or so, and had many friends among our
people, who are sincerely grieved by
his death.
A special meoting of the stockholders
and directors of the Atlanta and West
Point railroad has been called for to-
dny in Atlanta, and it may be the ques
tion of purchasing the Macon and Bir
mingham railroad will bo finally settled.
Tho purpose of the meeting is to discuss
the question of increasing the capital
stock of the Atlanta and West Point
road, and it is believed by some that
the purpose of the increase is to assist
in the purchase of tho Macon and Bir
mingham. For the past two years the
Macon and Birmingham has been in the
hands of a receiver. S. F. Parrott, of
Atlanta, who for several was vice-pres
ident and general manager of the Geor
gia, Southern and Florida railroad, is
the receiver of tho company. It is un
derstood that ho has had several con
ferences with the officials of the Atlan
ta and West Point regarding the sale
of the Macon and Birmingham.
Gov. Brown has ordered an election
for Feb. 16 in the Second Congressional
district to fill the vacancy caused by
the recent death of Congressman
Griggs. Threo candidates are already
announced-Hon. H. M. McIntosh of
Dougherty, Hon. J. R. Mercer of Ter
rell, and Judge W. N. Spence of Mitch
ell—and there may be others before
the contest closes.
A Wild Blizzard Raging
brings danger, suiTering—often death—
to thousands, who take colds, coughs
and lagrippe—that terror of winter and
spring. Its danger signals are 1 ‘stuffed
up” nostrils, lower part of the nose
sore, chills and fever, pain in back of
head, and a throat-gripping cough.
When grip attacks, as you value your
life, don’t delay getting Dr. King’s
New Discovery. "One bottle cured
me,” writes A. L. Dunn, of Pine Val
ley, Miss., “afterbeing ‘laid up’ three
weeks with grip.” For sore lungs,
hemorrhages, coughs, colds, whooping
cough, bronchitis, asthma, it’s supreme.
■60c. $1.00. Guaranteed by all druggists.
“I never saw such an exclusive fam
ily-”
“That’s easily explained.”
“How?”
“They’ve cut loose from the society
they had, and they can’t get into the
society they Beek.”
Communicated.
Woman's Christian Temperance Un
ion Return Thanks
To our Mayor and Council for the high
license (practically prohibitive) placed
on the near-beer saloon. As wise a
man as Mr. Gladstone said, “Give me
a sober nation, and I will take care of
the revenue.”
As members of a great organization
that stands for the uplift of humanity,
we feel that we would be unfaithful to
duty and ungrateful in the highest
degree if we failed to express our
thankB for tho courageous stand taken
by our city administration in regard to
tho near-beer saloon. You have heard
and granted the request of our women,
who believe the liquor traffic is the
greatest evil in the world, for it brings
every other evil in its train. We have
asked great things of God and man,
and received the divine answer, in
words of royal commendation: "0,
woman! Great is thy faith 1 Be it unto
thee even as thou wilt!” The women
of Carthage taught their children to
hate Rome, and wove their hair into
bow-strings for their husbands and sons
in their war with their terrible enemy.
So may Georgians infuse into their
children the perpetual hate of the liquor
traffic. The near-beer saloons, legaliz
ed in our fair city, were a great danger
to young men, and a menace to our
homeB. Never had citizens a more
urgent call to do their utmost to form
and maintain a high public sentiment
than now. And, above all else, let
us put emphasis on manhood. The
strength of every nation is measured
by its citizenship;—no country can be
great if its men are small. We do not
believe that “prohibition does not pro=
hibit.” If so, why the closing down of
breweries and the entering of liquOr men
into more honorable avenues of busi
ness, as daily chronicled in our secular
press? Let other faint-hearted cities
take courage;—let their citizens awake
to duty, and place men in office who
will outlaw this abomination—the near-
beer saloon! Let our police enforce
this ordinance as faithfully aB any
statute in the code. The need abides
for simple, unpurchasable, incorruptible
manhood. To go on the forlorn hope
of reform is a service of peril;—who
will undertake it, if it be not also a
service of honor? Therefore, we will
build you a monument of our gratitude.
Glad greeting to you on this new year
of service. May the Lord God of hosts
be with you, one and all, and prosper
tho cause of prohibition—municipal,
State, national, and world-wide—so
that when the year comes to a close we
will not sigh with regret for things left
undone, but sing songs of praise for
what has been accomplished for our
Lord, for we are laborers together with
God, and every man shall receive his
own reward, according to his labor.
With highest respect and sincerest
thanks,
Newnan Branch, W. C. T. U.
Newnan, Ga., Jan. 10th, 1910:
Telephone Service for Coweta Coun
ty Farmers.
Tho farmers of this county have about
finished! gathering their crops, amt they
should now turn their attention to get
ting themselves into telephone commu
nication with the rest of the world.
There are at the present time several
farmers' lines connected with the New
nan exchange, and the service that
these farmers are receiving is second
to none anywhere. Are you ona of
them? You- should be, and- it is-not the
luxury any more than a business neces
sity. How much they mean to yow you
will never know until you have one, and
then you will wonder how you- ever did
without it.
^Distance with the telephone in your
home iB overcome, and you. have your
neighbors at a call as well as- your mar
ket.
Anything that would make life more
K leasant to your good wife- she- should
ave, and in ouropinion there is nothing
that she will appreciate more than a
telephone in her home. Think this over
and aee if you cannot give it to her.
At the present time there are- over
one hundred farmers’ line stations in
Coweta county, and if you are not one
of them you should be thinking of it
one of these cold: nights when yowmight
need the telephone to call in assistance
which might save you a long, disagree
able ride, as well as life or property.
Mr. W. A. Robertson has signed a
contract for a line that will be built in
to Newnan soon, and this only makes
the telephone much more valuable to
the users.
W. D: Howells said of an unsuccess
ful playwright:
•'remaps it is because he can’t write
plays himself that he condemns the
modern stage. Perhaps it is a case of
sour grapes with him, just as it was
with Jobson.
“Jobson proposed to an elderly heir
ess. But even in the course of his pro
posal the man could see he stood no
chance. So he ended rather abruptly,
and the heiress said in a cold voice:
“ ‘No; I cannot marry you, Mr. Job-
son. The only man I ever loved Was
killed at the battle of—’
“ ‘Bunker Hill?’ snarled Jobson, as
lie hastened forth into the night.”
“I admire the technique which the
artist displays in this picture,” said the
gentleman who wa3 visiting the gallery
with his bride, “but it seems to me
that the motif is faulty.”
“Oh,” the sweet young thing ex
claimed, “I thought that was meant
for a blacksmith shop.”
“You seem to have a great deal of
faith in doctors,” said a friend of the
sick man.
“I have,” was the reply, “a doctor
would be foolish to let a good custom
er like me die.”
PASSENGER ELEVATORS.
Tholr Invention Made tho Modern
Skyicraper Poailble.
It Is certain that the earliest and the
most indispensable of tbe factors which
have enabled the construction of tbe
mighty skyscrapers of today was the
passenger elevator and that this was
brought Into use during tbe Blxtles of
the last century. Its first appearance
in New l’ork being In the Fifth Ave
nue hotel. It was at about the same
time Introduced into the Astor House,
then already a generation old. So ob
vious was the utility of this device
that tho wonder again is that It hud
not been brought into practice long he
reto. Holsts are, of course, as old as
tho Dutch warehouses, of Which the
pleturesqueness Is enhanced by the
projecting cranes that worked the
hoists, doubtless as old as Arqbimedos,
But liotolB, even when the Fifth Ave
nue was built, were conditioned in al
titude, db were all other buildings not
exclusively monumental, by the pow
ers of ascension of the unassisted hu
man log. Five stories was the max
imum for commercial buildings, except
that an attical sixth might be added
for tho discommodation of (be janitor,
whose name wus Hobson atid who had
to go -where he was sent, which, nat
urally, was where no “paying guest"
could be induced to go. He and bis
may have taken tlielr outlook on life
from silts or bullseyes just under the
roof. In the cases of hotels the sixth
story was assigned to servants and
storerooms. Tenants or Inmates could
not be Induced to climb more than
four flights of stairs and grumbled
grievously In tbe ease of Inmates of
hotels and accused the hotel clerk of
perfidy when they had to climb so
many. A device which would make
all the floors, even of a live story hotel,
equally accessible, and so equally de
sirable, was a device very sure of Im
mediate adoption, so sure that the only
wonder was that the supply of It
should have so lagged behind the de
mand. The beginnings of the eleva
tors were, it is quite true, the .'begin
nings also of what in their -'earlier
stages were known as the “elevator
buildings."—Scribner’s Magazine.
EXHILARATING SPORT,
The way some people can keep a pose
all through life should be the despiar
of professional models.
Dog Driving Over the Ice and Srfow of
Labrador.
Winter driving with a team of a
dozen dogs is deelnred by Dr. Grenfell
of Labrador to be the most fascinating
sport ever enjoyed by man. His de
scription of it as quoted by Jnuies
Johnstone fn bis book. “Grenfell of
Labrador," Is as follows:
Although there is no harder work-
when driving over a rough country,
yet tbe bracing cold, the exhilarating;!
brightness of the' reflected light from'
the snow, the difficulty of getting bad
ly hurt, however shnrply one sho>tfs a
mountain side or even: tumbles over q;
cliff, the absence of damp or moisture,
ttw fact that one can travel nuywhere
fiv soft, light mocenstos and In such
clothing as is most conducive to agil
ity,. without any reference to conven
tionally. nil help to vanquish any re
alization of labor on n long trip.
There is infinite scope' for skill in
choosing, tending and training your
dogs, nlho for both pluck and physical
strength' fn driving, and nlliBhecraft of
the woodsman Is called for i!u crossing
miles of virgin country, where at any
time nny wrong turn will suneiy mean
a night hr the open find perhaps a
temperature of 40 degrees of frost.
Dog driving nlso teaches one what
boxing is sold to teach, self control,
for of all the trials of temper.- one can
be called on to endure the worst is,
givcu a glorious day for travelling and
when one IS- in a hurry, to have one’s
dogs ruu wfld. listening to nothing,
not watchihg anything, but tangling
with every stump and tree and biting
at everything that comes In the- way.
As one man told mo when I asked
him what kind of a team be had: “I’s
had to give ’em up, sir, thought I loved
they well enough. Good dogs be that
wild It is too hard for to be a-hnndlln’
of ’em and be a Christian, too,, sir.”
Census Application Forms.
Census Supervisor Edward T. Moon,
whose office is at LaGrange, Ga., has
received from the Census Bureau a sup
ply of blank applications for persons
applying for positions as census enu
merators. These will be forwarded to
his list of applicants as soon as possi
ble.
The applications, properly filled out;
must be returned to the Supervisor not
later than Jan. 31. the Census Director
having extended tne time for filing from
Jan. 25, which was tne date first set
for closing the consideration of applica
tions. The “test” will occur Feb. 5,
as previously announced.
The instructions printed on the appli
cation form state that a definite answer
is required to each of the questions,
which are:
“Are you a citizen of the United
States?. If naturalized citizen, when and
where were you naturalized?
“Of what State or Territory are you
a legal resident? How long have you
been a legal resident thereof? Of what
county and of what town or city and
ward are you a resident? How long
have you been a resident thereof?
“What is your sex and color? What
was your age at last birthday? Where
were you born?
“Wnat is your education? (Give the
principal facts.)
“Wnat is your present occupation?
“What is your professional or busi
ness experience? (Give the principal
facts, and, if at present an officeholder,
name the office you hold.)
"Have you ever been employed on
census work, either National or State?
If so, in what capacity and for how long
a period? If an enumerator, for what
territory or district? (Describe as ac
curately as possible.)
“Are you physically capable of a full
discharge of the duties of a census enu
merator? Have you any defect of either
sight, hearing, speech, or limb? If so,
state nature of defect.
“Do you speak English? Do you un
derstand and Bpeak any language other
than English? If so, what language?
(Specify languages spoken.)
f ‘Arq you a member of a political
committee of any party? (Answer‘Yes’
or ‘No,’ but do not indicate what
party.)
“In view of the fact that you may be
required to take a test before a post
master, state what postoffice would be
most convenient to you for this purpose.
(This test is of a practical character,
consisting chiefly or wholly of the filling
out of a sample schedule of population
from information furnished regarding
typical families, and, in the case of enu
merators whose work will be in rural
districts, the filling out of a sample
schedule of agriculture.)
“Are the answers to each of the fore
going questions true to the best of your
knowledge and belief? Are they in your
own handwriting?”
Indorsements of each applicant must
be secured from two representative Citi
zens of the community in which tbe ap
plicant resides. They must be at least
21 years of age and acquainted with the
applicant not less than one year. In
dorsements will not be accepted from
any person who is in anyway related to
an applicant. The indorsement certifies
that the applicant “is a thoroughly
trustworthy and honest person, of good
habits, and, im- my 1 opinion, is fully ca
pable of discharging the duties of a-cen
sus enumerator, if appointed.”
A country convert, full of zeal in his
first prayer-meeting, offered himself
for service.
“Earn ready to- do anything the Lord)
asks of me,” sareChe, “so long as it’s-
honorable.”
Clara —“Was- he nervous when he
proposed?”
Mae—“Not in the least.”
Clara—“He was when he proposed to
ine, but—oh, well;, possibly he has had
a lot of practice since then.”
. How'bThis?
We offer Oiie Hundred Bbllacs Reward for any
case of Catarrh that cannot be cored by Hall's
Catarrh Cure. F. J-. CHENEY A CO..
Toledo. Ohio.
We, the undersigned, hare-known F. J. Cheney
for the last 155 years, and) Relieve him perfectly
honorable in all-business- transactions, and finan
cially able to carry out any obligation made by his
firm. War-ding, Kowjrm & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O.
Hall's CatarrhiCure is- taken internally, acting
directly upon the* blood and' mucous surfaces of.
the system. Testimonials sent free. Price 75
cents per bottle.-. Sold.by nllidruggiste.
Take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
Very Controversial.
They were very controversial in
those days.
First.—Bowies wrote a book about
Pope.
Second.—Campbell abused Bowles'
book ou Pope.
Third.—Bowles replied to Campbell's
abuse of Bowles ou Pope.
Fourth.—Byron wrote an answer to
Bowles’ nus-wor to Campbell's)abuse of
Bowles' book on Pope.
Fifth.—John Bull wrote a letter to
Byrou about Byron’s answer to Bowles’
nuswer to Campbell’s abuse of Bowles’
book on Pope.
Sixth.—Dr. Garnet has a theory of
tbe authorship of John Bull’s letter to
Byrou about Byron's comments on
Bowles’ answer to—It 14 like "The
House That Jack Built!”—Andrew
Lang.
Bare Poles.
Purser—Don’t go on deck, madam.
It is stormy, and we are running her
with bare poles.
Aunt Polly—Well, I suppose that,
coming from such a cold country as
Poland, they cuu stnnd running round
naked, but I think it’s downright
scandalous to let ’em.—London Tele
graph.
Brainless.
Nell—Mr. Saphedde has m ire money
than brains. Belle—Why, I never knew
he had much money. Nell—He hasn’t.
—Philadelphia Record.
Announcements.
FOR’ TAX COLLECTOR.
To the Voters-of Coweta, county: I hereby an
nounce myself ajcandidate for-Tax Collector, sub
ject to the Democratic primary. I have been a
citizen of Coweta aounty more than 40 years, and
have never before-asked an office at the hands of
the people. I feek that I an* qualified to fill the
office, and if the people should honor me by elect
ing: me to this-important office I pledge myself to
an honest, sober and’, faithful’ administration of
the duties therebfL I wHl, if elected, devote my
entire time to the-oonduct of t&e office: and it will
be my pleasure tn> serve and accommodate the
people. Daw W. Broadwater.
FOR CGSUNTY TREASURER.
Mr. J. P. Shaw-is an old soldier, 78 years old,
has lost his rigrhtreye* is ruptured, and his wife,
(aged 74,) is practically blind. He is a candidate
for County Treasurer, is a worthy citizen, and
asks tne support of the voters of Coweta county.
He has no childten-to assist him in making a sup
port. He was- caught on a circular saw some
years ago and so seriously injured that one arm
and one leg. lmwe* been practically useless since.
Respectfully,
A. A. BARGE, M. D„
DUKE LEE. M. D..
J. L. BARGE, M. D..
T. B. DAVIS, M. D.
Lucky Mamm# Didn't Heap.
“Papa. what la a masked battery?”
“A. shrewish tongue concealed by a
pair of pretty Ups, my boy."—Boston
Transcript.
Amusements^
AUDITORIUM
(Ubder the management of C. L. Baker.)
WEEK OF JAN. 17.
COMPANY
EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE
Lesser’s BigLondon Ghost
Show eid Vaudeville
Alliance
Popular Prices.
QUALITY COMBINED WITH
CORRECT PRICES
Be sure and see us for your Terrace Plows,
(the Oliver Chilled.) It has no equal.
Headquarters for correct farming tools.
Remember, we sell Stoves and Ranges, from
the cheapest to the best. The Jewel Range has
no equal.
Give us a trial and you will be convinced.
Have just received a shipment of new Garden
Seed.
When you ’phone for anything in hardware
remember the number—201.
REMEMBER THE PLACE.
B. H. Kirby Hardware Co.
SUCCESSOR TO KiRBY-BOHANNON HARDWARE CO.
u
The bes-t accident and health insurance’ is that which
actually pays- your claim. Below we print copy of a letter
received frona one of our policyholders—
Newnan,, Ga., Jan. 1G10.
Messrs.. Gamp Bros., Newnan, Ga.—Gtents: I
am in receipt of yours of 3d inst. inclosing
diraft covering two weeks-’' and two days* total
indemnity, binder my accident and health poli
cy. Please accept my thanks for your prompt
attention te» this matter.- I also wish to
heartily indorse the action of the Maryland
C&sualty Co* in this and previous claims. I
value my policy with this- company very high
ly-
wishing far you and the Maryland Ghsnalty
Ccr- a prosperous New Year, I am,
Very truly,
W/„ F. C. LINGH.W
This form of policy covens, all diseases andi accidents.
Lete us have your application.
CAMP BROS.
Do You Eat to Live,, of
do You Live to Eat?
Now, there are some of us who have to eat to. live, and when
such is the case, we want the very best grade of everything— •
things that won’t impair your digestion, but make you, feel good after
the eating or drinking thereof. We sell the highest grades of
Coffee, Tea, Flour, Hams, Syrup, Canned Meats, Canned Vegeta
bles, Fruits, etc. If you belong in the category of those who eat,
you’ll find that we have everything you can think of to sop, chaw
on, and eat. You’ll find also that we are just as cheap as the “oth
er fellow,” who makes out that he is the cheapest fellow in town.
If we should be a little bit higher on some things, you’ll find the
grade a heap better. When you pay a eheap price for anything
you get “cheap stuff.” There are some people that will sit down
and eat a sorry, sobby biscuit thirty days in the month in order to
save 5c. or 10c. on a sack of flour.
Buy from the house that never tries to deceive you.
CHARLIE COLE
“The Store O’ Quality
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